There is a continuous attraction, beginning with God, going to the world, and ending at last with God, an attraction which returns to the same place where it began as though in a kind of circle. -Marsilio Ficino

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Bhakti by Maurice Bejart

I hesitated as to whether or not I wanted to post this but Bejart died last week at the age of 80 and I found some aesthetic merit in this dance. It is interesting to compare it with the previous (more traditional) dance of Shiva that I posted earlier. As you can see this is very much a product of its time (1969). Hope you enjoy it.

14 Comments:

Interesting pointe work. A rather interesting contrast of shapes in terms of mixing classical ballet and classical Indian dance (not necessarily well, but interesting nonetheless.) And I think the music is cool.

I'm sorry, that was just for this particular dance. I am not the best person to ask for general criteria for evaluating classical ballet. Maybe someone (cough, cough!) could jump in and educate us on this.